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Daughter of Smoke and Bone, book 2.
After an unimaginable betrayal, Akiva and Karou are back where they started—on opposite sides of the brutal war between angels and demons. With her family dead, Karou has few choices left. Devastated by grief and guilt, she joins forces with the remaining chimaera soldiers to help create an army that can stand against the seraphim. Akiva, meanwhile, continues to serve the emperor, but does a lot of soul-searching about the futility of the cycle of violence and ...more
After an unimaginable betrayal, Akiva and Karou are back where they started—on opposite sides of the brutal war between angels and demons. With her family dead, Karou has few choices left. Devastated by grief and guilt, she joins forces with the remaining chimaera soldiers to help create an army that can stand against the seraphim. Akiva, meanwhile, continues to serve the emperor, but does a lot of soul-searching about the futility of the cycle of violence and ...more
This book feels like exactly the book that needed to bridge the story of Akiva and Karou/Madrigal and what I assume will be an epic war/revolution in the third book.
I saw someone complain about how there wasn't a lot of romance in this book. I'll agree with that, in comparison to the first book. However, with Karou and Ziri's growing friendship (and Ziri clearly still has feelings for her), and the on-going romance between Zuzana and Mick, there is plenty to sustain me. Those moments were even s ...more
I saw someone complain about how there wasn't a lot of romance in this book. I'll agree with that, in comparison to the first book. However, with Karou and Ziri's growing friendship (and Ziri clearly still has feelings for her), and the on-going romance between Zuzana and Mick, there is plenty to sustain me. Those moments were even s ...more
Oh, how do I tell you about this book without spoilering anything.
I left the first book of this series both entranced and a little wary of the teenage-supernatural-reincarnation-love-story over take at the last fourth of it. But gasping at how she twisted that ending. I'd waited a long time for this new one to come out and I have to say that book two took all my doubts about a teenage love story and tossed them out the window.
God. There was so much in this book. Three different worlds, and the ...more
I left the first book of this series both entranced and a little wary of the teenage-supernatural-reincarnation-love-story over take at the last fourth of it. But gasping at how she twisted that ending. I'd waited a long time for this new one to come out and I have to say that book two took all my doubts about a teenage love story and tossed them out the window.
God. There was so much in this book. Three different worlds, and the ...more
So. This would have four stars but the first part of the book made me. It want to continue. The last 1/3 of the book picked up though and I finished it.
while still a good book, this was a little bit of a dissappointment. Karou's character did not seem the same and this book was grim grim grim. I'm still looking forward to the third!
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I feel like Taylor must have read a lot of Game of Thrones between writing the first book and this one. This was good, but a big change from the first book.
barring the superrapetastic bits, I mostly loved this book! but good lord, the creepy badtouch parts were awful and I hated them fiercely.
First read November 8, 2012
Reread April 9, 2014
Reread April 9, 2014
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